Delta, Mississippi Weather
Delta, Mississippi — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast, soil and crop conditions for Delta, Panola County.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Delta. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Delta is published on the Panola County Airport (KPMU) page, 23 km away. It carries the current METAR decoded into plain language — surface wind, visibility, cloud layers and ceiling, temperature and dewpoint, and altimeter setting — alongside the raw observation as transmitted. 6 airfields within reach of Delta have their own pages, listed below.
The Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF) is shown across its full validity period, with each change group broken out so you can see when conditions are expected to shift. Flight category is derived automatically — VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR — from reported ceiling and visibility, with runway details and field elevation alongside. Observations update roughly hourly and forecasts several times a day.
Other airports near Delta: Selfs Airport (KMMS) 26 km · Tunica Municipal Airport (KUTA) 35 km · Fletcher Field (KCKM) 38 km · Water Valley Municipal Airport (K33M) 50 km · Thompson-Robbins Airport (KHEE) 53 km
Conditions reported at KPMU describe the airfield itself. Weather 23 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Delta specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Delta.
About Delta, Mississippi
Delta lies low, a flat expanse where the sky presses down with an almost tangible weight, its vastness broken only by the patient geometry of fields. It lies 35.0 miles west of Oxford, MS (from Oxford, MS: bearing 277°T), and is situated 6.8 miles south-east of Crenshaw. The air here carries the rich, damp scent of turned earth and the distant hum of machinery, a constant murmur beneath the cicadas' incessant song. Sunlight, when it breaks through the humid haze, falls in broad, unblinking swathes across the landscape, bleaching the pale green of cotton stalks and deepening the emerald of soybeans. Roads, straight as a surveyor's line, cut through the land, leading to farmhouses that seem to emerge organically from the rich soil, their porches worn smooth by generations of quiet living. The landscape itself breathes with a slow, steady rhythm, a testament to the enduring power of the elements and the quiet persistence of those who call Delta home. This corner of Panola County, though part of the broader Delta region, carries its own distinct history, its economy deeply rooted in the fertile soil that stretches to the horizon. For generations, agriculture has been the lifeblood, the cotton fields and soybean rows defining the economic and visual character of Delta. The echoes of a past where sharecroppers and large plantations shaped the social fabric can still be felt, a subtle undercurrent beneath the modern agricultural operations. While no grand monuments mark its history, the enduring presence of the land itself serves as a constant reminder of its agricultural heritage. The quiet hum of tractors in the fields and the occasional grain truck rumbling down a county road are the modern-day pulse of Delta, a place that continues to draw its identity from the bounty of its earth.
Live animated radar for Delta and surroundings — RainViewer.
NOAA GOES-16 GEOCOLOR — live animated loop updated every 10 minutes. Shows cloud cover, storm systems and weather patterns across the continental US.
Source: NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East · Public domain · Auto-updates on page reload
| Location | Delta, Panola County, Mississippi |
| Coordinates | 34.423163°N, 90.128981°W |
| Timezone | Central Time |
| ZIP Code(s) | 38666, 38621 |
| Area Code | 601, 769 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Delta, Mississippi Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Delta, Mississippi, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Aviation weather — live METAR observations and TAF forecasts — is published separately on the pages for the nearest reporting airports, linked from the aviation section above. Additional sections may include tide predictions, wave height, wave direction and sea-surface temperature, a barometric pressure trend, and a solunar-based fishing forecast with a fishing-conditions rating for coastal localities, and soil temperature, crop weather and live USGS river gauge data for agricultural areas near a monitored waterway. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Delta includes coordinates 34.423163°N, 90.128981°W, situated in Panola County. ZIP code 38666, 38621. Telephone area code: 601, 769. Timezone: Central Time.
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. River and stream data is sourced from the USGS National Water Information System. Tide predictions are sourced from NOAA CO-OPS; marine and solunar data are modeled from Open-Meteo and public sunrise/moon calculations and should be treated as a general guide alongside on-the-water conditions. Radar is provided by RainViewer. Satellite imagery is sourced from NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East and is public domain.
